"If somebody knocked on the door right now and said, 'It's a guaranteed pill. Give this to Brooke and she'll be fixed,' well first I would say to him, 'She's not broken.' And B, I would say, 'Thank you, but no thank you," Howard said in a video filmed for the "Katie" show.

There is one girl on a commercial for home health care services here that has something similar. She looks about 9 months old, is the size of an infant, but on the commercial she's on the computer, purposely manipulating the mouse and reading something. She has a breathng tube and glasses. They don't say an age or the name of her condition, just how happy they are that Home Health Care allows her to live at home full time.

ArkAngel:"If somebody knocked on the door right now and said, 'It's a guaranteed pill. Give this to Brooke and she'll be fixed,' well first I would say to him, 'She's not broken.' And B, I would say, 'Thank you, but no thank you," Howard said in a video filmed for the "Katie" show.

The mother is a terrible person.

I don't know if she is a "terrible" person, but I can't understand why she wouldn't want her child to have a more normal life and not have a mystery condition that has kept her in the body of a 4-year-old for 16 years, being fed through a tube. Perhaps she is resigned to the situation and knows there isn't a magical pill coming, and that's how she deals with such a difficult thing. I suspect if that personal really did come knocking with a pill, she'd absolutely take it for her daughter.

Click the Daily Mail link (yes, I said that) to really be freaked out. She will never age and can heal herself. She could live forever barring any accidents. She had a brain tumor that disappeared. She had a stroke with no effects, etc.

serpent_sky:ArkAngel: "If somebody knocked on the door right now and said, 'It's a guaranteed pill. Give this to Brooke and she'll be fixed,' well first I would say to him, 'She's not broken.' And B, I would say, 'Thank you, but no thank you," Howard said in a video filmed for the "Katie" show.

The mother is a terrible person.

I don't know if she is a "terrible" person, but I can't understand why she wouldn't want her child to have a more normal life and not have a mystery condition that has kept her in the body of a 4-year-old for 16 years, being fed through a tube. Perhaps she is resigned to the situation and knows there isn't a magical pill coming, and that's how she deals with such a difficult thing. I suspect if that personal really did come knocking with a pill, she'd absolutely take it for her daughter.

It could be a number of reasons. First of all, she loves her kid, so she cannot admit there is something "wrong" with her. It may be moms only defense against hating her own kid. Or perhaps like many parents, don't want their kid to ever grow up.

Either way, I'm surprised that some rich person hasn't stole her to figure out what's wrong genetically. Whatever this kid is missing, may hold the key to immortality.

serpent_sky:ArkAngel: "If somebody knocked on the door right now and said, 'It's a guaranteed pill. Give this to Brooke and she'll be fixed,' well first I would say to him, 'She's not broken.' And B, I would say, 'Thank you, but no thank you," Howard said in a video filmed for the "Katie" show.

The mother is a terrible person.

I don't know if she is a "terrible" person, but I can't understand why she wouldn't want her child to have a more normal life and not have a mystery condition that has kept her in the body of a 4-year-old for 16 years, being fed through a tube. Perhaps she is resigned to the situation and knows there isn't a magical pill coming, and that's how she deals with such a difficult thing. I suspect if that personal really did come knocking with a pill, she'd absolutely take it for her daughter.

If a mythical pill to "cure" homosexuality existed would it be horrible to turn that down for your kid? They have a pretty rough time growing up. What about curing shortness? Do we all want to be average?

"If somebody knocked on the door right now and said, 'It's a guaranteed pill. Give this to Brooke and she'll be fixed,' well first I would say to him, 'She's not broken.' And B, I would say, 'Thank you, but no thank you,"

Sounds like they have it figured out. I mean most of you "ex snowflakes" hence forth refereed to as the "yellow snow" could never bear the burden of a non typical child.

Do we have ex-snowflakes yet? I thought they were all still under the age of 13.

Yes we have ex snowflakes they started graduating highschool in 2000. The yellow snow is everywhere now spreading derp and fear.

I want to take your word for it, but that would be my little sister's age and I remember her and her friends and none of them were ever treated like snowflakes. I felt bad for what most of them had to go through.

I dunno, maybe I didn't live in such a high class neighborhood as you.

jaylectricity:Revek: jaylectricity: Revek: I mean most of you "ex snowflakes"

Do we have ex-snowflakes yet? I thought they were all still under the age of 13.

Yes we have ex snowflakes they started graduating highschool in 2000. The yellow snow is everywhere now spreading derp and fear.

I want to take your word for it, but that would be my little sister's age and I remember her and her friends and none of them were ever treated like snowflakes. I felt bad for what most of them had to go through.

I dunno, maybe I didn't live in such a high class neighborhood as you.

You probably didn't but a lot of them did. It has nothing to do with 'high class' and everything to do with decency.

namegoeshere:There is one girl on a commercial for home health care services here that has something similar. She looks about 9 months old, is the size of an infant, but on the commercial she's on the computer, purposely manipulating the mouse and reading something. She has a breathng tube and glasses. They don't say an age or the name of her condition, just how happy they are that Home Health Care allows her to live at home full time.

I'd be interested to know if her bones are fused together like an adults or if they are like a 4 year old's. If the bone structure is like an adult's in child proportions I'd think that it'd be a new type of dwarfism/growth hormone thing with developmental delays (halt is a better word I guess) in the brain.

Sheseala: I think it's a kind of primordial dwarfism. I was hoping there for a while we'd learn something that could extend our lifespan, but I don't think that's the case. I've had a link to her story in my profile for years.

Quantum Apostrophe:Sheseala: I think it's a kind of primordial dwarfism. I was hoping there for a while we'd learn something that could extend our lifespan, but I don't think that's the case. I've had a link to her story in my profile for years.

Kind of looks like it--with some kind of arrested progeria or Angelman's syndrome? (Type of developmental delay with microcephaly) The age of onset is kind of strange, though; but she looks like she had some kind of organic brain disfunction or injury. Infection maybe?

Gyrfalcon:Quantum Apostrophe: Sheseala: I think it's a kind of primordial dwarfism. I was hoping there for a while we'd learn something that could extend our lifespan, but I don't think that's the case. I've had a link to her story in my profile for years.

Kind of looks like it--with some kind of arrested progeria or Angelman's syndrome? (Type of developmental delay with microcephaly) The age of onset is kind of strange, though; but she looks like she had some kind of organic brain disfunction or injury. Infection maybe?

Apparently she had a tumor when she was young but it disappeared. Her cells are also aging normally, even if her overall body is not, so she'll probably start developing wrinkles and such as she gets even older.

Long story short - she's going to be one farked up looking infant when she's a senior citizen.

BULLSHIAT. Why do parents of special needs children insist on saying this. Yes, she is broke. There's something wrong with her and you are a horrible person if you would turn down a chance to fix her.

I remember during my Mormon days some guy was talking about patriarchal blessings (basically a fortune cookie on steroids, but without the cookie) and how he talked with some other dude who had to come up with one for a profoundly "special needs" kid. What he pulled out of his ass was something to do with the kid having been, prior to meatspace life, one of the angels who escorted Lucifer out of Heaven. The idea was Skypappy had the kid's back by using a loophole to keep the kid childlike and innocent until he assumed room temperature so Satan couldn't screw with him and this kid would be absolutely without sin, guaranteed a spot in the velvet rope section, 72 virgins, and a Lamborghini Countach that never runs out of gas.

All I could think of was "How many assholes had to bounce Lucifer Skywalker down to hell? Cuz there are a whole lot of retards* out there, have been in the past, and there will be many more."

* including me, but I got my bugs patched with filthy science; against the Abrahamic god's will, of course.